The other day our team split up and went either to an elderly home or a rehab center. I went to the rehab center where we were able to spend time with the men giving our testimonies and hearing theirs, as well as singing songs in English and Spanish. It was cool to see how two sisters from Guatemala had created this community focused around God to help these men get over their addictions. After we had finished our ¨service¨we walked around to see the land and some of the men started giving us mangos from one of their trees. As we stood there even more were falling off the trees, somewhat...

Today we went out to the barrios and I´m pretty sure we found Neverland and the Lost Boys. We walked up and there was a group of them so we went over and asked if they wanted to play baseball. After a little confusion, the kids started pouring out of the wood work and pretty soon we were surrounded by them. Everyone was running around and screaming and laughing and just having a great time. The adults were all looking on smiling as we played baseball with a ratty tennis ball and our fists as bats. No one kept score and everyone got a turn at bat. We then played soccer and blew bubbles...

Knowing that you´re exactly where God wants you in that very moment is one of the best feelings a person can have. The other day I was blessed to have one of those moments. After spending the morning with 4 different families in their home, one of the little boys decided to follow us back to the youth center. His name is Marlon, and he´s 12 years old. Our team had lunch, then I was in the group to go pray around the grounds of the center. I was by myself, so I asked if he wanted to go with me, which he did. I ended up sitting with him under a tree just talking about different things that I...

  brett paul and un otro amigo after playing futbol in the park.     this is one of my absolute favorite pictures so far…this is paige with the kids from the very first barrio that we visited. I got to go back to this same barrio today and it was so cool to see the kids remember us…little shy erica ran up and jumped into my arms 🙂     first barrio, erica is the one in my lap    

           

We made it to Jinotepe and I think it´s safe to say we all love it here. One week down, about 6 1/2 more to go! With only a few people knowing Spanish, you can imagine it´s a bit of a struggle to go out and meet people and share our testimonies and the love that Jesus Christ has to offer them, but we´re making due with what we have, and trying new ways to break down the language barrier. We laugh to ourselves at how ridiculous we must sound with some of the things we say. One day a few of us wanted to play with some kids, but it was during the day so we figured they were all at school....